"Premium" service won't work (was: Question for Clay and others)

[Andy Armstrong]

rudy rouhana wrote:
> 
> Andy Armstrong wrote:
> > A mechanism must surely already exist under which you can pay to
> > periodically top up a shared account which is then debited by various
> > micropayments to premium content site et al. I'd have thought the pron
> > mongers would have invented such a thing if a vacuum had existed...
> 
> I think the closest thing to to that is the AdultCheck verification.  It
> basically aggregates sites under one authorization scheme.  It does not break
> down to a pay for each individual piece of content. nor does it have to be
> refilled.
> 
> So I've heard anyway...

;-)

Technically it wouldn't be too hard, but socially you'd face the
problems of convincing people it was secure, that your company was
sufficiently well established to hold their cash for them and so on. I'm
sure it's something that a co. like Amex could usefully get themselves
involved in though.

-- 
Andy Armstrong, Tagish